Japanese women can now hire good looking men to wipe away their tears

September 18, 2015, 8:36 am

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Offices in Japan must really suck.

Someone thought there was a legitimate need for a service, called Ikemeso Danshi, where good looking men come and wipe away tears of over-stressed female workers.

Yeah, it’s weird.

According to Japan Trends, it works like this: you place an order for your man of choice, they rock up to your office and together you watch some real sad movies to get those tears in full flow.

Having poured out all the angst the daily grind’s been causing you, the guy leans in with one hand against the wall and gently brushes the tears of your cheek.

Seriously, this is for real guys.

There’s currently six chaps you can choose to comfort you, including all your favourite cliches… Read the full story

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These are the Instagram filters to use to get the most likes

September 18, 2015, 8:47 am

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Instagram users upload 60 million photos a day, which means it’s tough to get your photo to stand out from the crowd.

And let’s face it, we all love it when the likes come flooding in.

Luckily for those who crave the sweet satisfaction of a double tap, some researchers from Yahoo Labs and Georgia Tech have sifted through a whole lot of photos to find out which filters work best.

After looking through 7.6 million photos (told you it was a lot) they found that filters with warm temperature, high exposure and contrast increased both views and comments.

They also found that filtered photos are 21% more likely to be viewed and 45% more likely to be commented on than snaps without… Read the full story

It’s the biggest and best oversized vegetables from the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show

September 18, 2015, 9:45 am

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Ooh er, what a whopper.

Yes, we appear to have gone all local paper circa 1973, but what can we say? We simply can’t resist an oversized vegetable.

And if you feel the same, then you’re gonna love this collection of pictures hot off the press from the 40th annual Harrogate Autumn Flower Show (yes, we know, how very regional).

From knobbly beetroot to hairy parsnips – what this veg lacks in looks, it more than makes up for in size.

World record holder Ian Neale with his 1st prize winning beetroot

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September 18, 2015, 10:40 am

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There are certain sentences that you’d never imagine yourself saying, like ‘Honey, please don’t lick the toaster.’

And ‘We do not poop in books.’

Until you become a parent that is.

Kids do a lot of weird and stupid stuff. This requires parents to do a lot of running around and telling them off for ridiculous things.

Nathan Ripperger, a father of five boys, found the funny side to all this and started designing poster-like images for some of the stranger things he’s said.

Naturally, the internet loved them because they cover all the essential parenting topics like food, animals, don’ts and bodily functions.

And now Ripperger has selected 80 of the best for a brilliant Read the full story

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September 19, 2015, 1:32 am

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Bringing new meaning to the phrase ‘painfully embarrassing’.

E4 is bringing out a new show called Look Into My Eyes next week, following 21-year-old hypnotist Archie Manners as he uses his skillz to prank the public.

Because nothing is funnier than the realisation that you have no control over your own mind. Not at all traumatic. Totally fun.

The channel released a preview this week which shows one woman, Gemma, using the power of hypnosis for the greater good: embarrassing her boyfriend Scott, who has a major case of wandering eye.

Archie manipulated Scott’s mind to make him slap himself every time he checked out another woman, and to make it really obvious… Read the full story

Makeup artist creates a powerful video in protest at how we label women

September 19, 2015, 2:24 am

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Because we’re tired of being labelled.

Inspired by the outfits worn by Amber Rose and Blac Chyna at this year’s VMAs, YouTuber and makeup artist Jordan Hanz has created a powerful video protesting the way we label women.

In the stop motion video, Jordan paints herself with all the unfair standards and stereotypes women face on a daily basis.

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‘We are women,’ she begins. ‘We are complex, complicated creatures, sometimes bound by the box that we are shoved into.

‘If a woman shows confidence, defends herself, [or] shows a differing opinion than what someone else may have, she’s considered a bitch.’

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September 19, 2015, 3:23 am

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Oh dear.

Costello and Costello, a real estate company based in Issaquah, Washington, has incurred the wrath of the internet by creating a ridiculously sexist advert promoting their services.

The flyer shows two options for customers’ real estate needs: a part-time agent, or full time professionals. Fair enough, right?

But they decided to illustrate those two options with a photo of a working mum for the ‘part-time agent’, and two dudes in suits as the ‘full time professionals.’ Plus the tagline: ‘Who would you rather represent you?’

The back of the flyer compares the working mother to their full-time team, noting that working mothers are ‘available at THEIR convenience not yours’.

Oh, okay.

Of course, the… Read the full story

This heartbreaking Facebook page shares the tragic stories of abandoned umbrellas

September 19, 2015, 5:24 am

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Umbrellas are for life, not just for the day it starts drizzling and you blow dried your hair that morning.

With all the horror of the world, one sad plight is often overlooked: the lives of umbrellas, destroyed, abused, and abandoned.

Facebook page Parapluie (that’s French for umbrella. Feel fancy now?) wants to bring light to this tragedy, sharing photos of abandoned umbrellas seen out in the wild.

‘Created for function and convenience,’ the page’s about section reads. ‘Abused and used during service. Due to defect and deformity,EXPELLED.

‘ALONE. FREE. Here their tales can be told…’

Once loved and cherished, now this umbrella is cruelly left at the train station.

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September 19, 2015, 6:17 am

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Quiz: How well can you talk like a pirate?

September 19, 2015, 6:24 am

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It’s talk like a pirate day, and landlubbers and seadogs alike are getting excited.

Many are taking to social media to show their appreciation for the day under the hashtag #TalkLikeAPirateDay by posting their best attempts at pirate speak.

Arrrrrr! Go fetch the Rum, me hearties… #TalkLikeAPirateDay pic.twitter.com/CGxL0uH66r

— Beanies Coffee (@Beanies_Flavour) September 19, 2015

Ahoy me tweeties! What are yer plans fer #TalkLikeAPirateDay? It's me 10th year celebratin' – I'll be hittin' the grog! #itlapd

— Ted Loveday (@TedTalksUK) September 19, 2015

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September 19, 2015, 7:44 am

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For when Kanye’s latest offering just isn’t up to your finger lickin’ standards.

KFC is the latest brand to delve into the high fashion game, teaming up with London-based menswear designer Katie Eary to create its first London Fashion Week show.

Because really, nothing says fashion like fried chicken. Right?

Of course, the collection wasn’t just for the love of fancy fabrics and poultry. It was created as part of KFC’s #PackMoreIntoLunch ad campaign, which is themed around the idea of doing more shiz with your lunch hour.

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September 19, 2015, 9:05 am

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If you’re finally getting tired of all those re-imagined Disney princesses, and wish they’d give another character a shot, here you go.

Illustrator Brandon Bron Bermudez has re-drawn Minnie Mouse as a high fashion iteration of some of the most iconic characters from film and TV, from Holly Golightly all the way to Carrie from Sex and the City.

Is it a little weird seeing one of the greatest cartoon characters from our childhood stretched out with model proportions and pouting?

Maybe a bit. But hey, we’ve seen Ariel as a tattoed pin-up girl and Tinkerbell in a massive bath of hot chocolate. Nothing is too far.

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Someone has created a children’s book based on Kanye and Jay Z’s ‘N***** in Paris’

September 19, 2015, 10:01 am

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There is no better source of soothing relaxation and life inspiration than Kanye West. Seriously.

So if you’re in search of something appropriate to lull your child to sleep, why WOULDN’T you look to a classic piece of Kanye West and Jay Z genius – their iconic song, ‘N***** in Paris’.

Well, because it’s a little bit sweary. But don’t let that put you off. The Interns have come to your rescue, creating a kid-friendly version of Kanye and Jay Z’s adventures in France.

Yep, there’s now a children’s book based on ‘N***** in Paris’. It’s called Friends in Paris, and it is brilliant.

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September 20, 2015, 7:24 am

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Do you enjoy trips to the theatre, countryside walks and drinking herbal tea?

According to a new study commissioned by Yakult, these are some of the things that contribute to whether or not you can consider yourself ‘cultured’.

The firm… Read the full story

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September 20, 2015, 7:44 am

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With the last lashings of warm weather behind us, it’s time to kiss summer goodbye and embrace the crisp autumn air.

And while the season of endless evenings and lazy bank holidays is quickly coming to a close, there’s no need to mourn for summer – London’s best days this year are yet to come.

Not convinced? Here are a few reasons why autumn is the best time of year to be in the Big Smoke.

1. Cooler temperatures mean respite from the sweltering heat in the Tube

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You’ll never believe what goes on behind the scenes at The National Theatre

September 20, 2015, 9:53 am

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Waiting in the wings your heart pounds.

Behind you is the hard, wooden hull of a ship, before you a table of objects, each within a neatly white-taped square – a basket of vegetables, a pocket watch, a letter.

You move on and see a man flying a kite in an airless room, while others plot the ground with a giant’s tape measure.

At The Royal National Theatre, nothing is as it seems.

A nick in the ship’s solid oak beams reveals they’re polystyrene.

You touch the vegetables and realise they’re rubber.

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15 things you did in the 90s that were pure sass

September 21, 2015, 2:26 am

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Everyone knows the 90s are the new 80s and that was because we were such sassy babes.

We still are.

Who else could do the following and feel like a King or Queen for doing so?

Here’s 15 things you did in the 90s that were pure sass.

1. Snapped bracelets on our wrist by choice – because using a clasp was far too mainstream.

2. Refused to own a pen or pencil if it didn’t have some kind of fluffy top, or had a plastic animal on a spring.

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Free pizza alert – students get free grub for Freshers’ Week

September 21, 2015, 4:18 am

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Attention, students! Free food-related news.

You can get free pizzas today (Monday, September 21).

To mark the beginning of Freshers’ Week, Pizza Hut Restaurants are giving away 100 free pizzas to the first students through their doors.

Sadly the offer only applies to restaurants in the Birmingham Bullring, Manchester Corporations Street, Edinburgh Hanover Street, Leicester Haymarket and Liverpool ONE.

If you’re nowhere near one of those, Pizza Hut Restaurants are offering 40 per cent off food for all students with a valid student ID until October 11 though.

Whether you start your student life as you mean to go on by saving the remains of your pizza for breakfast is up to you.

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Famous feminist blames rape on the way victims drink and dress

September 21, 2015, 5:13 am

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Victim blaming comes from many places, but it’s even more shocking when it comes from a prominent feminist.

Susan Brownmiller published the groundbreaking book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape in 1975, where she wrote: ‘Rape is a crime not of lust, but of violence and power.’

However, the views she expressed in an interview with The Cut seem to be straight from a 1970s chauvinist.

Brownmiller believes that women are ‘crazy’ if they think they can drink as much as men and that women should have to… Read the full story

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September 21, 2015, 6:40 am

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Most of us are thankful the next morning that we haven’t sent that text of a drunken nude selfie to our secret crush.

This feminist artist, however, is dragging up the unsent naked selfies and sexts buried on her phone and sharing them with the world.

Molly Soda told Dazed: ‘The text/photographs were sort of piling up, both on my computer and in my head – I sort of needed to do a purge in order to move on.’

Her photos have now been complied in an electronic zine called Should I Send This? available on New Hive (unsurprisingly a little NSFW), where they defy conventional beliefs on what femininity is.

She’s proudly displayed her body hair in unconventional nudes that celebrate the female body.

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